Motorola's netbook-powering Android smartphone, the Atrix, goes on sale today exclusively from Orange.
As reported last month, the Atrix is a 2GHz dual-core handset with 1GB of Ram and 16GB of on-board Flash storage.
Available separately is its netbook-like shell: an 11.6in screen, keyboard and battery called the Lapdock. The …

I think the image of the Atrix that gets a lot of use is symbolic...

Want a new phone... fed up dealing with Mobile operators...

At least the phone is 'free' if you sign your life away for 2 years... shame the data allowance sucks hairy balls. 750MB a month?

In the US you can get the phone, laptop and desktop docks for about £300... (Which is what orange want for the laptop dock alone) again on a 2 year contract but at least they give you more reasonable 4GB data a month.

1GHz x 2 cores = 2GHz!

dock should be in the trackpad

If the phone itself dropped into the a vacant space in front of the big screen then you would have an innovative trackpad because the phone display could show things on the pad for added usability and features e.g. a tool or colour palette for a drawing package, as well as the big screen

missed opportunity

That was the obvious thing to do really. I'd like to hear what excuse their designers had for not doing this. Even if it wasn't used as a track pad, a second screen would be highly useful too, media keys or something.

The only reason they may not have done this is that someone else holds the patent. I did see an article/rumour that apple may have held the patent. The OLO was the first rumour flying around.

No HD Voice support = Fail as a phone!

Title says it all.... Why do companies insist in making great portable internet devices and forget that people still like to talk on the phone? Didn't orange announce last year that they expected the majority of their handsets to be HD Voice enabled this year, yet there still only appear to be a handful on the market and ironically, the only people I regularly get an HD connection to are those who shunned the high end phones in favour of cheap Nokias/Sony Ericssons etc...

So, just like my iPhone, if I choose this device I still have to carry a separate £50 Nokia (or better, HTC Desire HD) just to have decent voice quality.... Which makes it seem rather pointless compared to a separate netbook. FFS Motorola, if HTC can get HD Voice on the Desire HD surely, with your mobile history, you could at least make an effort these days? :-)